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THE SUNDAY OREGOXTAX. PORTLAND. APItlX 26, 1914, RADIUM IS UPHELD PRIESTS' ROSE WINS nrnc ladder or success SOME OBSERVATIONS' BV THOSE UP NEAR. TOE TOP WOKING--. DOWN" Dr. Mackenzie Says It Helps in Cancer Treatment. Marvelous Festival Exhibit Is Developing. DISEASE CALLED CURABLE BROOKS, OR., FLORAL SCENE Portland Physician, Back From New York, Says Discussion at Surg ical Meeting Was-Placet! in Wrong Light by Reports. Two Hundred and I"irty Rare Va rieties, Including "Inventions" by ."Sweet Briar Burbank" Will Be Brought Here. 18 BY SHAD O. KRANTZ. A INK is a state full of pine trees. So is Minnesota. So Is Washing ton and so is Oregon. This combination of circumstances explains why L. C. Gilman is president of the North Bank Railroad instead of being president of some other railroad or something equally important In some other part of the country. Mr. Gilman Is a native of Maine and, according to his theory. Maine people always follow the pine tree. That is the reason, when he left his native state, he came West Instead of going South or Southwest. "You'll aways find a lot of Maine people in the pine- belt." says Mr. Gil man, and to prove his assertion he can name any number of folks who were born in Maine and who now live In Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota or in these Northwestern states. But when he decided to follow In the footsteps of those Maine folks who had preceded him on the westward trail he didn't stop at any of the Intermediate states, but went at one jump to Seat tle. He was Just out of law school then, and the Northwest appealed to him as no other section of the country did. In fact, he had. had his eyes on this part of the country for some time be fore he actually came. Farm Life Not Attractive. As a mere youth he decided that he didn't want to stay on his father's farm all his life. Farming back in Maine was hard work and didn't offer much return. While he didn't mind the work, he did want some reasonable compen sation for his efforts. So it was that when he was still going to high school he resolved to practice law to fit himself for a future career in the West. By working on his father's farm at spare intervals and during the Summer months he was enabled to enter the Maine Central In stitute. But he continued persistently to plan for a course in a law school, and while attending the Institute earned his expenses by working in a lumber mill. By the time he finished his institute training he had enough money to carry him through a term of the law school at Columbia University, m New York. But he didn't have enough money to complete his education, so he quit his studies at intervals and taught school to make more money. Thus his legal training at Columbia was spread over a period of seven years. But when he was graduated he was a finished law yer, having acquired valuable practical experience as well as a knowledge of law. Call to Seattle Annwrrfd. About' this time he heard frequent Inspiring tales of the wonderful suc cess attending former residents of Maine at various places along the pine belt between the Great Lakes and the Pacific. Seattle at that time was thick ly populated by recruits from the Maine pine forests and he decided to bridge the distance between Maine and the then Territory of Washington all in one quick trip. Seattle then had a population of about 8000. but was full of promise for the future, which promises long since have been fulfilled. He had a brother in Seat tle who strongly encouraged him to come. But it seems that scores of other young men had similar inspirations and like encouragements. No small num ber of them were lawyers. Competi tion for clients was keen. Seattle was a frontier town, people lived under lit tle restraint and litigation was at a minimum. So he was fortunate at the start to tret a case once in a while by appoint ment from the courts.- The first case of this kind was one Jn which he was called upon to defend a Chinaman charged with dynamiting fish. The Chinaman was guilty, and the prosecuting attorney early proved the case against him. But he was not discouraged. It didn't take long to build up a substantial private practice, which he continued for 21 years from 1884 to 1903. Early in his career he began to specialize in corporation work. His knowledge of corporation law and the success that attended his efforts in that direction gave him a wide repu tation. It was not until 1D03 that he became regularly connected with the .railroad work, but long previous to that period he frequently was associated with at torneys for the Great Northern nd other roads in the Northwest in handling important cases. J. J. Hill Picks Him for Office. When, in 1903 James J. Hill appointed liim as counsel for the Great Northern at Seattle, he became the principal executive officer of that road in the Northwest. A few years later he was triven the title of assistant to the presi dent. When L W. Hill succeeded his father as president of the Great North ern he was transferred to the general offices at St. Paul, continuing the title of assistant to the president. Two years ago he returned to Se attle in the same capacity ana re mained as the chief executive officer the wetsern eni or tne ureal rsorin ern until the first of the present year when he became president oi tne spo kane. Portland & Seattle (the North Bank Road), and affiliated railroads owned jointly by the Great Northern and Northern Pacific. Railroad work comes naturally to him and his success would do justice to a man who had been in the service all his life. "Still, I consider myself nothing more than a lawyer," he says. "I am a lawyer called upon to do a railroad man's work." Mr. Gilman merely smiles when his attention 1s called to the fact that many of the most -prominent present day railroad executives began as law yers and says that their success is not due necessarily to-the fact that they were lawyers. , Law Offers Ample Rewards. Yet he believes firmly that the law offers abundant opportunities and am ple rewards to young men who follow the profession with a fixed determina tion to succeed. While not all lawyers can become railroad officials, he points out. he asserts that it is just as well that they don't aspire in that direc tion. "No. I had no idea that I would take up railroad work when I began prac ticing." he explains. "While I always had a fondness for corporation law. It was only good fortune that 1 branched off as a railroad man. "Th.e opportunities when I began were no more numerous than they are today. Competition was keen in Seat tle then and It can be no keener to day. - "A good many men don't succeed In law because they lack temperament. It takes a man of considerable pa tience to be a lawyer and it is un fortunate that so many young men lacking this essential enter the profes sion." It is because Mr. Gilman Btill re gards himself as a lawyer that he de clines frequently to discuss his views as a railroad man. "The principal duty of a railroad official," he says, "is so to manage his properties, that he will give the max imum of satisfaction to the stockhold ers, and the Interests of the stockhold ers can best be served by catering to the interests of the public. That is the prime requisite of railroad man agement today to please the public." $203,500 PERMIT OUT BROADWAY THEATER PLANS ARE FORMALLY AUTHORIZED. City Puts Official .Approval on Specifi cations for Other Structures Of Various Designs. The largest building permit of the year was issued last week to the Blod gett Company for the erection of the theater and office building on Broad way and Stark street, which has been leased to Sullivan & Considine Com pany. It cites a cost of $203,500. Hurley-Mason Company are the architects and builders. Other permits amounting to $2000 and over were issued last week as follows: Mr. Lowden Erect one-story frame dwell ing:. Curtis avenue, between Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh; builder. G. White; 2000. Blodsett companj-Erect theater and of fice buildlne. Broadwav and Stark utreeta: builder. Hurley-Maaon ComDanv: S203.500. oeconn unurcn or. Jnrmt. .Scientist Erect two-story bunding, corner East Sixth, and Holladay; builder, O. C. Brubaker Co.; $4O,000. . Martin Lundberg Erect two-story frame dwelling. Flint between Hancock and Tilla mook; builder, Frank Carlson; 35l0. Farrell Investment Company Excavation, Stark street between West Park and Park; builder. C. J. Cook Company; $2000. C. M. Osborne Erect two-story brick building. .Foster Road and. Fortieth avenue; builder. H. Evans; 7000. H. li. Ackley Erect 1-storv frame dwell ing. East Thirty-fourth, near Raymond; G. E. Miller Erect Hi-story frame dwell ing. Alameda between Fifty-ninth and Six tieth; builder, same; $.'1000. J. W. McFadden Erect 114-story frame dwelling:. East Forty-eecond between Harri son and Hawthorne; builder, same; $2500. - Holbrook Estate Erect two-story frame barn. Sixteenth street between Quimhy and Raleifrsi; builder, Steblnger Bros.; $9000. Earl A. Roberts Erect one-story frame dwelling. Sixty-fifth street between Sandy and Klickitat, builder. John Hedstrom.: 2m0. Espey Estate and Glle Investment Com pany Erect one-story ordinary stores. Burn side street between Ninth and Park; builder, same; $5000. . M. B. Wakeman Erect two-story frame dwelling. Brazee between Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth; builder, Bert E. Boice; $.".0 00. G. G. Larfield Erect one-story frame dwelling. East Caruthers between Twenty fourth and Twenty-fifth; builder, same: $600. G. C. Goldenberg Erect one-story frame dwelling. Schuyler between Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth, builder, same: $2000. A. Hedlund Erect two-story frame dwell ing, Missojrl between Shaver and Mason: builder, s. Synnes; $2600. Anderson Construction Company Erect two-story frame dwelling. Senate between Imperial and Thirty-seventh; builder, same' $3500. . Wlnlock to Ballot on Tuesday. WINLOCK, Wash., April 25. (Spe cial.) The second local election, at which the question of reducing the city limits of Winlock will be voted on will be held Tuesday. At the previous elec tion the proposition was defeated, but only by a small margin. The principal party Interested is especially active owing to the possibility of street im provement through a large acreage he holds in the southern part of the city. In spite of. opinions given by a few physicians that radium Is not effective in the treatment of cancer, the value of this method of treatment is being emphatically defended by a great pro portion of the leading physicians . of the world. Attacks were made on the radium treatment at the recent meet ing ot the American Surgical Associa tion, . of which extended accounts ap peared In the New York Sun and other papers. In the New York Times of April- 19 a dispatch, from Paris gave the opinion of Dr. Eugene Doyen against the use of radium for the treatment of cancer. Dr. Kenneth A. J. Mackenzie, of Port land, was in New York at the time the radium discussion was held, at the meeting of the American Surgical As sociation, and he himself spoke, with others, in support of the radium treat ment.. . . , ' Dr. Mackenzie has just, returned frsm New York, where he attended this meeting and also the triennial meet ing of the International Surgical Asso ciation of Brussels, held for the first time in America. ... N Dr. Mackenzie Gives Interview. In regard to the radium discussion on April 11, he gave an interview yes terday. Dr.. Mackenzie said that he was not In favor of making public reports on professional matters, but the subject of cancer and its treatment, because of the appalling increase in the death rate from that disease, was so Im portant that a knowledge of the dis ease, and especially Its prevention, should be diffused as widely as pos sible, and for this reason he felt Jus tified in making a statement. "Although the cause of cancer is not yet known, it Is being worked out. and the regular medical profession, always mindful of its obligations to society, is struggling to solve the problem In countless laboratories and hospitals throughout the civilized world." he said. "It has so far solved the white plague problem that the world le within measureable distance of wit nessing the passing of the scourge which has wrought more havoc and de struction than all the wars of pagan and modern times combined; "Society forgets all too readily that scientific medicine with its lofty altru ism In Its ceaseless efforts to protect mankind by the prevention of disease Is blotting out one by one Its means of subsistence. Cancer Called Curable. "Cancer is curable. It has a begin ning which can constantly be deter mined. Very often It appears at the seat of a simple mole or wart or some simple harmless tumor, the early re moval of which from any part of the body would prevent Its later trans formation Into cancer. It appears fre quently on parts of the body Inside or outside, which are exposed to continued Irritation, e. g.,- the lip, the tongue, the eye, the stomach, the orifices of the internal organs, etc., etc. Correct the cause of irritation at these points at the earliest possible moment and can cer Is prevented. There are many other plain facts, but those mentioned simple as they appear. Indicate the great principles upon which the Indi vidual can act to protect himself from cancer. "Reproach for failure to effect cure In cancer must therefore fall upon the person who neglects too long the ini tial lump, fissure or point of irritation, rather than upon the profession which has always pointed the way to preven tion. "It will be seen, therefore, th,at a large percentage of cases can be pre vented by the observation of simple measures and the remedies are effec tive, whether it be the 'surgeon's knife, the cautery, the X-ray, radium or any method. "In the discussion referred to, radium was attacked and an article stated that surgeons applauded the' attacks upon radium. Nothing could be more un true. - The applause was directed as a courtesy to the speaker and not against radium. Radium has Its place in the treatment of cancer. "Failures Hopeless Cases." "In the discussion at the Joint meet ing of the American Surgical and the International Surgical Associations on the use of radium in the treatment of cancer, the facts are that Dr. Sparman, assistant to Profesaor Von Eiselsberg, of Vienna, reported the use of radium in cases of far advanced cancer of the internal organs and the results, as one would expect, were unfavorable. Any method of treatment would , have been unfavorable under the same conditions. For the same reason the treatment of Congressman Bremner by Dr. Edward Kelly, of Boston, by radium, which was so truculently heralded throughout the world's press was a failure. It could not have been otherwise, because the disease was no longer local. Its germs being scattered throughout the system. . 'The possession of common sense, professional judgment and honor should have prevented Dr. Kelly from exploiting this or any other case in a way that would reflect discredit upon his profession and upon a very useful agency for the treatment of cancer. "Dr. Robert Abbe, of New York, who was the very first to use radium in the United States, entered the discus sion and addressed himself to facts and his' accumulated experience and spoke of the wonderful selective ac tion that radium, properly filtered and used, exerted upon cancer and kin dred growths. His reports have been published in the medical press and are OXLY FIVE MORE DAYS TO REGISTER. Registration for the May' pri maries will close n e x t Friday night. Thousands of citizens in Multnomah County who have not yet registered have an opportu nity to sign the books -within the next five days. Those who do not do so will lose their votes In the primaries unless they are sworn in at the polls, which is an Inconvenient and uncertain procedure. The registration books will" be kept open until 9 o'clock each night up to and Including Fri day. County Clerk Coffey has a large corps of deputies in charge to handle the rush that Is ex pected. Only a large registra tion during the closing days will bring the total up to the early estimates. Naturalized citizens are required to show their papers to the registration clerks. . rose city park club OFFICERS AND PIRECT03.S I fir. 1 -. I V t rs , 1 : , ... v.,.-::, ;vxf I 1 I V? rr- r i xAf."- -y ! .j -- ; r w - fi r ' 7 r, - -- ' lr'iy I ' v- -; '0 , v,vv V-r -M .A' U . cvv-;r ,W jy Jr zc vfl. V'.v . ' V7 &&3a&extf.- P'l . ' - ! ' . v j! avf. ' t' - 1 f Jj'- nfcL-Ju. .-.- , Ja- 1 1 : Ilia v - U 7r?.ejr f x v W ' yy replete with . numerous cures even in cases of far-advanced local disease. "My part In the discussion consisted of reference to the results that I had obtained in treating cancer by means of a small but powerful radium ap paratus that I have used for the past three years, its use being restricted to the treatment of the disease In Its early stage and when strictly- local, and I reported favorable results, of its use in cancer and other; kindred af fections of the Bkin. "It would be a great mistake for a false impression to go out regarding the value of radium, the X-ray or any surgical method of . extirpating cancer in its early stages, for the reason that It would remove all hope for. .cure of that dreadful disease in many, cases, and sufferers from cancer would be led to neglect themseievs until all hope of relief was past, and Instead of prevention the endless propagation of the disease would be the result. "The article written by Dr. Doyen in the New York Times, which is also called to my attention, in which he refers to radium as a fraud possessing no value, requires an answer. Dr. Doyen is a notorious charlatan and has no standing in the regular profes sion; France has never used - radium and therefore knows nothing of its value and, as the article Indicates, like the charlatan he is, offers In-its place a very poor substitute of his own. "Frenoh physicians, notably Drs. Wickham and Degrais, . have been working for the past 12 years In the Radium Laboratory In Paris and have demonstrated countless cures-of early cancer. ' "To repeat, my motive In-this Inter view is to do my part in calling at tention to the importance of the early recognition of the local disorders and centers of irritation, which on and In the body lead to the formation of cancer, the timely discovery of which and their correction lead to the pre vention of the dread disease." MARKET OPENING PLANNED All Clubs and Organizations Are Asked to Participate, v Flans for the opening of the Public Market on May 16 will.be considered The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Rose City l'ai . '.-- oras held last week, the election resulting In . the unanimous choice of W. A. Lovett for the presidency. Frank Schlegel was elected vice-president; Virgil Crum. secretary, and K. F. Allshan. treasurer. The bylaws were amended. Increasing the number of -directors from 9 to 16. Provision was made for life membership on payment of $100. The records show li active members. The term of office for the directors Is so arranged that five expire each year.- The work of the women's organization was especially commended by the president, in his reportr as a benefit financially and socially. The club la In prosperous condition and Is doing excellent work, according to the re ports of the officers.- The directors are W. A. Lovett. T. T. Geer. V. O. Ripley. F. J. Campbell, H. J. Blaesing. B. F.' Alshaw, L. R. Bailey. F. E. Hilton." E. H. Carlton. Dr. A. Laldlaw, Frank. Schlegel. L. J. Nedd. V. A. Crum, L. J. Bader. by representatives from all of the clubs and organizations of Portland In a Joint meeting to be held at the Portland Commercial Club tomorrow, at 12:15. A big parade on (he opening day Is projected and each club Is expected to participate in the event. F. H. Hil ton, chairman of the parade . commit tee, has sent letters to all of the clubs In the city urging them to have dele gates present at the meeting tomorrow. . . School Board Declared Invalid. ST. HELENS, Or., April 25. (Spe cial.) Attorney Strelf for Mrs. Flora I. Foreman, the Soelallst teacher, - this morning filed papers In quo warranto proceeding to test tha right ot . the - - ' '. ..' -i members of the Qulncy School Board to hold their offices. Mr. Streif charges that the recall of the former Direc tors was Illegal and that when the election of new Directors was held the proceedings were not valid. Jones Offers Amendment. . OREGONIAX NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington. D. C. April 25. (Special.) Senator Jones today offered an amend ment to the Indian bill appropriating $200,000 to defray ' partly the cost of Irrigating 120.000 acres allotted to In dian lands under the Wapato project on the Yakima reservation. One-half the pupulatloa of France Is en caged In agriculture. Of probable paramount interest in the big street exhibit during the Rose Festival this year will be the display ade by Rev. George Schoener. tho Catholic priest of Brooks. Or. Father Schoener has been termed "die Bur bank of the rose." because .;" his in ternationally famous success in creat ing new roses by scientific hybridizing of old varieties with the hardy wild Oregon sweet briar. This sweet briar Is rare" in other parts of the world, but peculiarly effective for budding processes. Father Schoener had not in tended to make any display of his won. derful collection of roses this year, having planned to exhibit them first at the Panama-Pacific Exposition, but he was induced, through his friend ship for Secretary Currey, to bring an extensive -collection of his best and most marvelous productions to Port land for the approaching celebration. The officials of the Panama-Pacific Fair have set aside a large section for Father Schoener's exhibit and will give It important place, recognizing the In terest the new roses will arouse in rose culturlsts from all parts of the world. Father Schoener says that in June his roses will be at their best, and that the Rose Festival's exhibit will have all the rare features of the big. compre hensive display he is to make at San Francisco. He has potted 56 different varieties of blooms, each of them be ing a tree rose obtained by grafting other choice roses upon the Oregon sweet briar. Some of the varieties are extremely rare, there not being more than one or two bushes in America, and these will make a notable exhibit in themselves. If weather conditions are favorable the rose-grower believes he will be able to exhibit all 65 of the varieties he has in preparation. Among them will be a number of his own "Inventions" in the rose world, blooms that he has pro duced by original methods of hybridi zation. Father Schoener will also make a display of cut roses from his wonder ful garden at Brooks, upward of 250 varieties to be included in this exhibit. The fact that the rose wizard will make his first public display of his new roses at the Rose Festival has created Inter est all over the country among rose . culturlsts, and will no doubt attract to the Festival some of the greatest ro sarlans of America. Robert Pyle, the great Pennsylvania rose culturlst, has already written Seoreteary Currey say ing that Father SVhoener's exhibit will be well worth a trip across the conti nent, and that If business matters will possibly permit, he will be among the interested visitors to the Schoener ex hibit. Mr. Pyle is probably the fore most rose-grower in America and Is nternationally famous. He was one of the Americans selected several years ago by the French government to go to Paris to judge the great internation al rose show exhibits in that continen tal capital. VETERANS DEMAND SALUTE Oregon City Post Angered by Alleged Insult to I'las. OREGON CITY. Or.. April 25. (Spe cial.) Enraged over an alleged re mark by S. McDonald made several days ago that the American flag was nothing "but an old rag, the mem bers of the Oregon City Meade Post are planning to force McDonald to pologlze to the men to whom he made the . statement and to publicly salute the flag. Already the veterans have appeared before Judge J. U. Campbell In an ef fort to have canceled the naturaliza tion papers for which McDonald has applied. The next meting of the post will be next Saturday, when the mat ter will be taken up. "SaTety First" Is Subject. Members of the Harrlman Club and other railroad employes will be g-uests of the O.-W. R. & N. Company at a lecture on "Safety First" in the Lin coln High School auditorium on Tues day evening. The moving picture films that have been shown at various points on the O.-W. R. & N. system will be presented again. A. W. Perley. In charge of the company's safety campaign, will give a lecture. The picture entertainment will be preceded by a musical programme, of which patriotic songs will form an Impor tant part. SEE THAT URVE (Trade Mark Hesjlatered) Theodore Roosevelt was the happiest and most amazed child in the country when he first saw the world through glasses. For years he had been unable to see what other children saw, but he was too young to under stand why. His parents did not know of his eye weakness because he did not know of it himself. Looking through two pieces of glass may open a new world with new opportunities to your child. We can determine, by scien tific examination, whether .glasses will be of benefit and we urge you to have this exam ination made. THOMPSON OPTICAL INSTITUTE SOA-IO-I1 Corbett Bldg. Fifth and Morrison.